Lavrov may meet with UN Secretary-General in Moscow March 20

MOSCOW, March 19. /ITAR-TASS/. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov may meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Moscow on March 20, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

“A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the U.N. Secretary-General is scheduled for March 20,” the source said.

The United Nations earlier officially announced that Ban would visit Moscow and Kiev on March 20-21.

“The Secretary-General is departing New York this afternoon for a visit which will take him to the Russian Federation and to Ukraine as part of his diplomatic efforts to encourage all parties to resolve the current crisis peacefully,” the UN said in an announcement.